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Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Thanks for the tip, and another question
From: Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:37:15 -0500
Reply-to: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
Carl D Cravens wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Michael Holmes wrote:
>
> > I got it configured.  I realized that if it is below one block, it would 
> > show
> > zero.  My conflict was the kernel was allocating  ttyS0-3 then running 
> > isapnp.
>
> That's not really the case... the files in /proc aren't really files.
> They're just presented as files to to make accessing them easy, but
> they're basically hooks into the kernel to access system information.
> They're always zero because they're really zero... they don't take up any
> disk space (only inodes, I assume) just like symbolic file links.
>
> --
> Carl (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)

Kool....I assumed..Did not read!  Thanks

Mike
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